The thornbush is the old obstacle in the road. It must catch fire if you want to go further.

One must not cheat anyone, not even the world of its victory.

You spend too much time on ephemeras. The majority of modern books are merely wavering reflections of the present. They disappear very quickly. You should read more old books. The classics. Goethe. What is merely new is the most transitory of all things. It is beautiful today, and tomorrow merely ludicrous.

Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old.

"Everything you say is boring and incomprehensible," she said, "but that alone doesn't make it true

By imposing too great a responsibility, or rather, all responsibility, on yourself, you crush yourself.